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园艺专业英语 Lesson 1 The History and the Development of Protected Cultivation Selected and rewritten from u The History and Geography of the Greenhouse by Il ? Zvi Enoch and ? ? Yaeln Enoch, in Greenhouse Ecosyslems20, echled by G Stanhill and H Zvi Enoch, a series book of Ecosystems ofthc World (Li Yaling, Shanxi Agricuhural University) This lesson briefly describes the development of the greenhouse from antiquity to the present day. Il ? includes a discussion of p「o(ec(ed cropping in cokband ho( f ￥ames, glass cloches, lean-to houses, winter gardens? orangeries, conservatories and glasshouses in their varied forms, and plastic-clad plant enclosures ? of all sizes ranging from low tunnels ? walk -in tunnels, to large plastic houses For the purpose of this lesson, the greenhouse is defined as a transparent enclosure designed to grow or temporarily protect plants ? Thus the definition does not include enclosures for growing mushrooms or ? tissue cultures In antiquity, however? there were probably no greenhouses in the sense defined here but there were ? various practices adopted to provide out-of-secison flowers and vegetables The cultivation of out-of-season plants was intensely studied in ancient Athens and Rome? This Can be seen for instance in the work of Theophrastus [who lived from 372 to 287 BCE (before the common era)]. He mentioned moving plants into the peristyle (verandah iii a dosed courtyard of a Greek house) at night and heating soil by mixing it with decaying manure or compost.